Gerhard Haering schreef:
> I can understand your emotions here. OTOH it's typical for Germans
> (and even more so French) to assume that everybody speaks their
> language.
The same is true for English language speakers in my experience...
(E.g.: why is this international newsgroup in English only?)
> [*] The very minimum of netiquette would require to read a few
> messages in the newsgroup/mailing list and check what it is about and
> in what language it is.
Hm, be.* newsgroups are officially "quadrilingual" (Dutch, French, German
& English), but in practice 99,99% of the messages are in Dutch, so
reading a few messages won't help much... ;-)
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JanC
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